"It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and
yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when
courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains
why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal
tragedy."- Albert Camus.

I came to Spain because I felt I had to. Look at the world situation. We didn’t worry when Mussolini came to power in Italy. We felt bad when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, but what could we do? We felt...that it was their problem and wouldn’t affect us. Then the fascist governments sent out agents and began to gain power in other countries. Remember the anti-Semitic troubles in Austria only about a year ago. Look at what is happening in Poland...

"I have no time to recall for you my life, but I know that it has been hard and beautiful"- From the last letter of Leon Pakin, one of the founders of the Jewish Botwin company, before being executed by the Nazis in Paris in 1942.

"Why I, a Negro, who have fought through these years for the rights of my people, am here in Spain today? Because if we crush Fascism here, [we] will build us a new society--a society of peace and plenty. There will be no color line, no jim-crow trains, no lynchings. That is why, my dear, I am here in Spain."- Canute Frankson to my dear friend, Albacete, Spain, July 6, 193

"We who fought the Fascist Axis in Spain proudly volunteer to march shoulder to shoulder with our fellow Americans for the final crushing of this menace to the independence and democracy of America and all peoples."- Milt Wolff to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 8, 1941